Windows Linux DualBoot Tutorial

April 15, 2007 — Nikesh

For all of you who are still trying to wrap your minds around dual booting with Windows and Linux, here is a tutorial to help light your way. While it may not actually do the dirty work for ya, it might save you a few hours of frustration.

This tutorial was written to help set up a dual boot on a SATA drive but it will also work for PATA so continue forward and I will let you know if you need to skip something. In order to have a fully functional dual boot system it is preferred that Windows be loaded first. After that you can load Linux and easily dump the boot configuration on Windows NTLDR file (comparable to Linux boot file).

At least one of the following scenarios exist and that is why you are here reading this tutorial; Source: Howtoforge